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The ban is in effect through Bastille Day in order to prevent "serious disturbances" to public order, the French government announced Sunday.

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 year ago (2 children)

lmfao did the french gov forget who it's people are?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The guillotine is too humane.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. Keep in mind the rich people of this would would gladly rape babies if it made them more money.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They also do it for fun. Just ask Epstein...oh wait, nevermind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We could ask the man who killed him?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'd settle for the people on his list but I think that might piss off The Party

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Now I am kinda wondering if they killed his killer.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Macron out here with the French Revolution Any% speedrun

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't wait to watch the speed run history breakdown of this in a few years

[–] Feweroptions 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think this is a great opportunity to see if anybody has a spine anymore. If the French won't have a proper revolution, we're fucked.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The fight for progress never stops

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

No one ever accused the French of

  • Being bad at baking
  • Not getting good and angry when the government is wrong
  • Being ashamed of being French.

I really have to hand it to them. Anglo nations just endure terrible government as an unfixable problem. When you piss the french off they are going to let you know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Won't happen.
90% of the population was against the recents riots.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

Perhaps the French govt should stop behaving against the will of the French people. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Maybe I don't understand yet how posts on Lemmy work, but is there no link/source for this post?

Edit: I can't see it on desktop (lemmy dot world) and neither in Jerboa. Edit2: OP edited the post and included the link which now works. Seems the picture broke the link, according to OP.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It links to a business insider article

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh weird, adding a picture killed the link. Lemme see if I can fix that.

Sorry, I'm new here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now it works for me, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No problem. I just hope that soon these instances will support pulling thumbnails from the articles to give the links a richer presence here. They're all so uniform and ugly right now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you’re viewing in compact mode on wefwef I believe that’s a known issue.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm not seeing it on desktop (lemmy dot world) and also not in the Jerboa app.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is some very ironic, animal farm energy here. The government has forgotten who gave them their power.

[–] potterpockets 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well tbf the Storming of the Bastille was (off the top of my head) two monarchies, two empires and two republics ago. Not to mention any communes, committees of public safety, or directories. How can you blame them for getting confused?? /s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They do still have multiple programs in place to ensure the populace always has bread. They haven’t completely forgotten.

[–] potterpockets 2 points 1 year ago

A tale as old as ~~Roman~~ time~~s~~

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe the government should listen to the people?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

That would threaten the profits of the wealthy.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I hate fireworks but this seems like a good reason to keep them around.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

You can have my fireworks when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers. Which are over there, near the fireworks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I know they did this to weaken protests, BUT… I’d say everywhere in the world would be a much better place if we banned fireworks forever.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's always struck me as rather odd that, in the US, one of our major holidays celebrating the military features fireworks considering how awful they can be for many veterans' PTSD.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Why does that strike you as odd? America doesn’t care about its veterans.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've never met one Veteran that was against planned fireworks displays. It's the backyard ones that are the issue.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

So a temp ban. Nice clickbait headline there bastardinsider . com.

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